Habitat 67
E15591
Brutalist architecture
apartment building
architectural landmark
housing complex
modernist architecture
Habitat 67 is a landmark modular housing complex in Montreal, Canada, renowned for its innovative, stacked-cube architectural design by Moshe Safdie.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Habitat 67 canonical | 7 |
| Habitat 67 housing complex | 1 |
| Habitat 67 in Montreal | 1 |
| Habitat 67 modular housing complex | 1 |
| Habitat 67 residential complex | 1 |
| Moshe Safdie's McGill University thesis project | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T128735 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Habitat 67 Context triple: [Montreal, hasLandmark, Habitat 67]
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A.
Unité d’Habitation, Marseille
Unité d’Habitation, Marseille is a pioneering mid-20th-century modernist residential housing block by Le Corbusier that exemplifies his vision of high-density, communal urban living.
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B.
Casa Loma
Casa Loma is a historic Gothic Revival-style mansion and popular tourist attraction in Toronto, Canada, known for its castle-like architecture and expansive gardens.
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C.
Villa Savoye
Villa Savoye is a seminal modernist house in Poissy, France, celebrated as one of Le Corbusier’s most influential architectural masterpieces and a key icon of the International Style.
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D.
Immeuble Clarté
Immeuble Clarté is a modernist residential building in Geneva designed by Le Corbusier, noted for its innovative use of glass, light, and modular living spaces.
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E.
Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism
The Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism is an MIT research hub focused on innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary urban design, planning, and policy challenges.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Habitat 67 Target entity description: Habitat 67 is a landmark modular housing complex in Montreal, Canada, renowned for its innovative, stacked-cube architectural design by Moshe Safdie.
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A.
Unité d’Habitation, Marseille
Unité d’Habitation, Marseille is a pioneering mid-20th-century modernist residential housing block by Le Corbusier that exemplifies his vision of high-density, communal urban living.
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B.
Casa Loma
Casa Loma is a historic Gothic Revival-style mansion and popular tourist attraction in Toronto, Canada, known for its castle-like architecture and expansive gardens.
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C.
Villa Savoye
Villa Savoye is a seminal modernist house in Poissy, France, celebrated as one of Le Corbusier’s most influential architectural masterpieces and a key icon of the International Style.
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D.
Immeuble Clarté
Immeuble Clarté is a modernist residential building in Geneva designed by Le Corbusier, noted for its innovative use of glass, light, and modular living spaces.
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E.
Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism
The Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism is an MIT research hub focused on innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary urban design, planning, and policy challenges.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brutalist architecture
ⓘ
apartment building ⓘ architectural landmark ⓘ housing complex ⓘ modernist architecture ⓘ |
| aim | to combine benefits of suburban homes with density of urban apartments ⓘ |
| architect | Moshe Safdie ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Brutalism
ⓘ
Modernism ⓘ |
| buildingMaterial | prefabricated concrete ⓘ |
| category |
World's Fair pavilion
ⓘ
residential building ⓘ |
| city | Montreal ⓘ |
| constructedFor | Expo 67 ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| designFeature |
garden terraces
ⓘ
interlocking cubic forms ⓘ modular construction ⓘ private terraces ⓘ stacked concrete modules ⓘ |
| event | Expo 67 ⓘ |
| hasAddress | 2600 Avenue Pierre-Dupuy, Montreal ⓘ |
| hasArchitect | Moshe Safdie ⓘ |
| hasFloorCount | up to 12 storeys (varies by section) ⓘ |
| hasFunction | residential use ⓘ |
| hasTourismStatus | popular tourist attraction in Montreal ⓘ |
| hasView |
Old Montreal
ⓘ
Saint Lawrence River ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | recognized architectural landmark ⓘ |
| inception | 1967 ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
Habitat 67
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Moshe Safdie's McGill University thesis project
|
| locatedIn |
Montreal
ⓘ
Quebec, Canada ⓘ
surface form:
Quebec
|
| locatedOn |
Cité du Havre
ⓘ
Saint Lawrence River ⓘ |
| notableFor |
iconic silhouette on Montreal skyline
ⓘ
innovative modular design ⓘ pioneering prefabricated housing concept ⓘ |
| numberOfHousingUnits | approximately 146 ⓘ |
| numberOfModules | 354 ⓘ |
| opened | 1967 ⓘ |
| owner | condominium co-owners ⓘ |
| partOf |
Expo 67
ⓘ
surface form:
Expo 67 site
|
| province |
Quebec, Canada
ⓘ
surface form:
Quebec
|
| purpose |
experimental housing
ⓘ
high-density urban housing ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Habitat 67 Description of subject: Habitat 67 is a landmark modular housing complex in Montreal, Canada, renowned for its innovative, stacked-cube architectural design by Moshe Safdie.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Habitat 67 modular housing complex
this entity surface form:
Habitat 67 residential complex
this entity surface form:
Moshe Safdie's McGill University thesis project
this entity surface form:
Habitat 67 in Montreal
this entity surface form:
Habitat 67 housing complex